knit me some mod groovy fashion: vintage patterns from the 1960s-70s
vintage knitting and crotchet patterns
Category Archives : Culture Vulture
john rawlings (1912-1970): fashion photographer extraordinaire (and american, too!)
My new favorite fashion photographer is John Rawlings, whose work I was only tangentially aware of before coming across this book of his work for Vogue where you can find additional images. Here’s another link to a lot of black-and-whites, including portraits of famous friends (Irving Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, both obvious influences). Some of the […]
starting june 6th – my annual workshop for visual artists
This workshop, in its 4th year, has been a great success, with student-participants of all stripes – from recent MFA grads to successful commercial artists returning to their fine arts roots – utilizing their new skills to gain solo shows and access to residencies. Sign up soon as space is limited. And please feel free […]
acid dreams: animated hallucinations on film and in cartoons
It was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer trips on a “Guatemalan pepper” that made me want to gather cartoon depictions of drug hallucinations. Of course that clip – like many – is unavailable online (outside a bad 15 second fragment). Still, animation seemed to me the perfect medium to conjure the phantasmagoric, wonky […]
easter 2013 with the voluptuous horror of karen black!
If you’ve never seen the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black you must! Imagine tom-tom beats, surf rhythms, throbbing guitars, songs about death and fucking all wrapped up in body paint, gigantic wigs (the bigger the hair the bigger the brains!), and the best props this side of the planet! Kembra Pfahler is amazing! All pics […]
ebay-etsy: collecting the pics
I’ve spent hours upon hours looking at shit on Ebay and Etsy, and have collected various photographs from different auctions/sellers that I found appealing mostly for their unintentional awkwardness – some of which I find aesthetically pleasing, others humorously abject. Anyway, here’s a sampling of that (ongoing) collection, enjoy! Tweet